By Mike Pflanz in Mombasa

The widow of a 7/7 London bomber on the run from police in East Africa, is in Somalia recruiting and training all-women attack squads, UK's The Daily Telegraph has learnt.

Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of Jermaine Lindsay, fled Kenya's main coastal city, Mombasa, last December after police discovered a plot to attack hotels with chemical bombs.

Possible picture of Samantha Lewthwaite with an unidentified man released by the Kenyan police.

Despite an international hunt by British and Kenyan police and Interpol, the 28-year-old British terror suspect has not been seen since.

But, according to a blog on a website used by the Muslim Youth Centre, a radical Kenyan pro-jihadi movement, she is in Somalia and has been connected to terror attacks in East Africa.

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The blog entry, which is anonymous but appears to be written by a female sympathiser in Tanzania, says that Lewthwaite is known in terror circles as "Dada Mzungu", which means "white sister" in Swahili.

"More than five times our 'Dada Mzungu' has defeated the kuffar [non-Muslims] in Kenya and Tanzania," she writes. "She gave her life to Allah and she now serves Allah as His female soldier. In +252 [Somalia] she commands her 'all-female mujahid terror squad' and conducts her operations against the kuffar.

"Now every Muslim sister wants to be like our 'Dada Mzungu'. I will join you." The blog entry adds: "She came to Kenya to torment the kuffar and left the kuffar in a state of "confused" [sic] as we say. The kuffar hunt her but still can't find her, for Allah protects His warriors."

Kenyan police sources in Mombasa confirmed that according to their intelligence, Lewthwaite was in southern Somalia, where she is being protected by al-Shabaab, the militant Islamist army.

"We cannot say that she is connected to any terrorist attacks in Kenya, but it is consistent with our information that she is with Shabaab in Somalia," one senior anti-terror officer in Mombasa said.

Details of a diary that Lewthwaite kept before she fled Kenya showed on Sunday that she wanted her children to become "mujahid" or holy warriors. The Daily Telegraph first disclosed the existence of Lewthwaite's diary in March.

In it, she kept notes that appeared to be plans for a book about being the wife of an Islamic holy warrior. She said that she decided to continue with the book after seeing her second husband, Habib Saleh Ghani, a Briton who is also wanted by Kenyan police, talking to her children.

"He gave a talk to my eight-year-old son and five-year-old daughter. He asked them what do you want to be when you are older? Both had many answers but both agreed to wanting to be a Mujahid," she wrote, according to a newspaper.